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PGP creator: Surveillance must be curbed
News Phil Zimmermann, creator of Pretty Good Privacy encryption -- better known as PGP -- was in Italy this week for the InfoSecurity conference. As the inventor of the famous Pretty Good Privacy encyption tool, he faced a three-year-long investigation...
[January 23, 2002, 17:29]
PGP encryption defect uncovered
News The flaw occurs in software that uses Pretty Good Privacy, a tool for scrambling email. Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, has been around for more than 10 years. Researchers claim to have detected a flaw in a popular email encryption technology that...
[August 12, 2002, 16:12]
PGP Corporation sees potential of deperimeterisation
News PGP Corporation owns the Pretty Good Privacy codebase -- originally developed by Phil Zimmermann. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a security system developed around cryptographic privacy and authentication.
[June 9, 2006, 13:40]
Network Associates drops PGP email encryption
News The company began selling PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, to corporations in 1997 after it bought the software business from the technology's author, Phil Zimmerman. It's not a good sign for secure e-mail demand, despite consumers' concern for online...
[March 11, 2002, 9:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The inventor of Pretty Good Privacy or PGP, the first generally distributed public key encryption system, has long wanted to give similar security to voice over IP (VoIP) telephony. One is where we protect what we own to protect our privacy and...
[August 18, 2006, 20:35]
EntourageGPG
Downloads GNU Privacy Guard (GPG), and all Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) implementations, use public key encryption. EntourageGPG allows encryption of your email in a way that only the person you intend to read it can, and also allows "signing" of those messages...
[October 17, 2002, 8:00]
Bug may pose risk to encrypted email
News GnuPG is a free replacement for the Pretty Good Privacy cryptographic technology. The problem lies in how certain email applications display messages signed using the GNU Privacy Guard, also known as GnuPG and GPG, the GnuPG group said in a...
[March 8, 2007, 9:15]
Crypto flaw allows email shenanigans
News Common encryption standards, such as Pretty Good Privacy, S/MIME, MOSS, Privacy Enhanced Mail and PKCS#7, have all incorporated the flaw. Just like people don't send mail that simply says, "No," people should not send email without context, said...
[June 27, 2001, 10:15]
Utility computing still a hard sell
News Sounds good on paper, but both software makers and customers have been slow and inconsistent in committing to the model, for reasons ranging from economics to privacy. When you go in and lease a car, the contract says so many cents per mile, and...
[October 20, 2004, 8:50]
Microsoft devotees speak out
News Microsoft started pushing harder on resolving ongoing security problems following a January 2002 email that Gates sent employees encouraging them to focus more on privacy and reliability. For us, community is about making sure we're having good...
[February 14, 2003, 7:50]
Encryption Facility R2 for z/OS Performance
White Papers The OpenPGP standard was originally derived from PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). IBM Encryption Facility for z/OS exploits the existing strengths of the mainframe and the IBM z/OS operating system. It is a host-based facility that leverages existing...
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
MacPasser
Downloads One example of such an application is PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). MacPasser is a small and easy-to-use password rememberer (passer). Simply put, is it an application that remembers account information.
[July 24, 2000, 8:00]
PGP pioneer pushes VoIP encryption
News Phil Zimmermann gave free email encryption to the world more than a decade ago in the form of software called Pretty Good Privacy. Or if you prefer, fewer entities that can betray your privacy. Now Zimmermann, who became an instant Internet hero in...
[August 15, 2006, 16:25]
PGP inventor downplays encryption flaw
News Neither Zimmermann, who created the original Pretty Good Privacy program in 1991, nor engineers at Network Associates, which currently owns the PGP trademark, were able to get more details from the researchers.
[March 22, 2001, 9:58]
US Report: Net music will change
News If you are a customer right now, MP3 is the only safe solution," said Hoffman, who is also a founder of encryption firm Pretty Good Privacy Inc. Before today, it was dubious whether the Big Five thought digital distribution was a good thing," said...
[December 16, 1998, 10:04]
A Year Ago: Net music will change
News If you are a customer right now, MP3 is the only safe solution," said Hoffman, who is also a founder of encryption firm Pretty Good Privacy Inc. Before today, it was dubious whether the Big Five thought digital distribution was a good thing," said...
[December 16, 1999, 6:01]
Internet Forensics review
Reviews This book also aims to help you safeguard your system's privacy. A good bit, however, is more arcane, such as the section on how to search virus software for strings that indicate its origin. The material on how much information browsers reveal to...
[April 4, 2006, 10:10]
Lawsuit opens new can of worms for Microsoft
News In January 2001, Microsoft kicked off its Trustworthy Computing Initiative, a companywide move to increase the security of its products, better handle customer privacy, and repair the giant's tarnished image in those areas.
[October 7, 2003, 11:50]
News Schmooze: They're watching you...
News UK users who registered with ETour.com might get a taste of privacy invasion shortly, depending on what AskJeeves.com decides to do with all the customer info it bought off ETour. All the parties have now revealed their IT plans, which range from...
[May 25, 2001, 16:29]
Cyberterrorism: Security versus liberty
News People pretty readily let go of privacy concerns as soon as security is involved," said Jonathan Zittrain, co-director of Harvard University Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Perhaps most worrisome to Arab Americans and privacy...
[August 27, 2002, 13:35]
